Career

Story

Synopsis

Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work council chairman.

Director

Heiner Carow

Writers

Heiner Carow, Claus Küchenmeister, Hermann Herlinghaus

Language

German

Country

East Germany

Release date

15 April 1971

Ensemble

Cast

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  Rüdiger Joswig

  Harald Walcher

• 

  Katja Paryla

  Frau Walcher

• 

  Brigitte Krause

  Mutter Walcher

• 

  Jürgen Hentsch

  Direktor Stahlberg

• 

  Ute Christensen

  Junges Mädchen

• 

  Günter Schubert

  1. Gast

• Joachim Trotz

  Narrator

• Horst Hiemer

• Gert Krause-Melzer

  Günter Walcher (archive footage)

• 

  Rolf Ludwig

• Dorothea Meissner

  Christine (archive footage)

• Gerd Micheel